Summer Break

Summer break. That's what the UK guys gave us students here in Malaysia before we move on to the second year. I guess they forgot that it's summer here all year round. Oh well, four months of summer break is quite fun and boring in the same time. One month just flew by with me doing nothing but driving up and down the peninsular. Fun but tiring. And I'm still broke as hell. Not a single cent in the my hand. Or pocket. Well, not literally. Need to find a job. Got a few in my mind. The money is kinda good. 10 bucks an hour. Big money. Besides, I got two and an half years experience on that field. Sales. Not just any type of sales, it's kitchen sales! They even have an opening for kitchen planners and they would be thrilled to know that I'm from IKEA. =D
But the hours would be crappy. Pro's and con's. The other job would be in Maxis. I heard the pay is good too and the working hours is awesome. Office hours. =D But that would be a three month thing. No weekend jobs. No weekday study, weekend work stunts. So, I'll need to find a second job for that. Again, pro's and con's. So I got only this weekend to make up my mind. Aino Living or Maxis. I might as well just join the former. Or what if I join them both? Maxis on the weekdays and Aino on the weekends?? Nah! I'm just being too greedy. But that again.. YOLO! =P

What a summer break this is! =/

All good things must come to an end

Like I said before, all good things must come to an end. And so does my employment in IKEA. Just handed in all my stuffs to the HR department. Feels kinda odd. I know it's just a part time job but yet it feels very odd. A feeling like no other that can't be explained. After all, I've been a 'loyal' employee for the past 2 1/1 years. The co-worker are more like a family to me. =/

Oh well. I'll live. Besides, I left in style which means I'm always welcome back to the family. =D
I might return back. It's been a great experience working there. Met famous peoples, funny people, odd people, all type of people. I actually got a chance to understand different people's personalities. All this by just planning a kitchen for them. =)

Very well then, now I got a different mission to carry out. A mission to find a different employment for I need money for my pocket and utility bills. Utility bills as in car monthly payment and fuel. The hunt for job begins now.

In the class feeling bored, waiting for next class. Got the last examination marks, some of it. Nothing to be proud nor ashamed of. Did quite well, so far. Now I got a new thing to change. My phone. Keep dying on me. I guess it just reached it retirement age. =/
Just realized something. Whenever I have something important to do which involved spending money, I'm always out of money. This time is no different. I'm totally out of money. Reason? I recent streak of absences from employment. Thus, no pay. Don't ask me why cause I wouldn't be able to answer. Now, I'll need to find a new job. Not because they fired me or something because... I don't want to give the burden or pleasure of doing so. =P
A man leaves when the times come. And when he leaves, he leaves in style. =)
And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.

The next dilemma would be finding a new employment closer to home. And if possible, something different. So let's hope for the best. =)

So long Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve so far

Twenty twelve so far so good. Started the year with flu, headache and the whole package. My employment in IKEA turned out to be never ending as my manager decided to extend my service. So much for my dream employment at Kidzania. *sigh* But at least now I got the schedule I wanted. Morning shift for life! Woohoo! =D
IKEA aside. That would be another ever ending love story. At last I found out the reason to my headache. Luckily it's not tumor or some sort of untreatable, uncurable, undetectable brain cancer. It's all caused by my eyes. Astigmatic.  Solution? Wear spectacles. *sigh* I've always hated to wear specs but now looks like I've got no choice. I'll just have to pick cool looking frame.. =P

Twenty eleven was good. Well, I'll have to say it was great. Long story short. I'm back on track at last. I became an organ donor. I should have registered as a voter but didn't get the chance so I'll just do it this year. I can't remember what new year resolution I made last year so I'm not gonna do any resolution this year except for one. No alcohol for the rest of the year. =/

=)

Done

Final done. So is the year. Well, not yet but it's about to. Pre-final stress was countered with the post-final party. Alcohol involved. Got a lil tipsy but I survived the ride back home. =D
Another thing coming to an end would my employment in IKEA. Long story short, they needed more full timer co-workers. =/
I can't remember my 2011 new year resolutions nor was it saved anywhere. So... yeah.
One thing for sure was I changed. Couldn't say was it for better or worst but yeah I changed. Cheers to that!
Well, need to get back to sleep now. My last six days in IKEA starts tomorrow. =(
I'm gonna miss IKEA.

Next month I'm going back to school and looking back how far I've came before actually starting my degree got me thinking. I've actually wasted three precious years of my life. Yeah, you might go on saying it's all experience, nothing is wasted and stuff like that but personally? I wasted. A lot. Been in and out of colleges for the past one and an half year. Met a lot of peoples. Most of them became good friends. Some of them became kinda of a family. Actually, I got like five people from college calling me their big brother and two of them are girls. Haha! Been working part time in IKEA for two years. Well that is something I would say an experience. Started to earn my very own money. Kinda understand the true value of it. Though sometime I overspend it. It's a whole different world the in the big blue box. Those people in my department are like my second family. Not intermediate family but just family. Had an department outing last Friday. It's the first one I'm attending after two years working in IKEA. People are surely different when they are not wearing their yellow uniform. I spend most of my time in IKEA planning kitchen for the many people. All type of people. Old, young, foreigner, locals, white, black, male, female, family, couple or single. Different people, different taste but one common thing. They want their kitchen to look good but burn a hole in their pocket. I learn to brush my communication and socialize skills by meeting these people. Sometimes, I'm afraid I would like have killed their kitchen dream especially when they say they would think about it and come back later. But when their really do, it feels good. They got like people from all over Malaysia working in IKEA. Different people all wearing the common thing. The bright yellow uniform. Sitting down with one co worker talking about how he got into IKEA got him talking about his time in the army and some accident he had while doing some military exercise which injured the nerves on his left arm. The other day, another yellow friend was talking about his life while sipping coffee during break time. I don't know why but people always tend to open up their story to me. Sometimes thing I say unintentionally ends up motivating them and they would just smile. But no one seems to listen what I've got to say. I suppose its the law of the universe. One can only take or give at one given time. If I listen to one's problem then I shall not speak to one about my problem. But then again, I'm not the type who goes around talking about my problem. After all, it's my problem. Just noticed I've been writing everything in one paragraph. I'm 22 years 2 months 2 weeks old at the time I'm writing this. What a coincidence. Now I'm on a 16 days off from work. So much to say but too much to write. I guess I now know whats causing my headaches. Too much thinking. Can't help it. It's on auto pilot. I need to stop thinking too much. 

Time is a weird thing

Each time I'm in a hurry to work, the buses either leaves the bus stop in Sri Muda late or the driver drives the bus freaking slow. Once I reach Asia Jaya, I'll have to wait an eternity for the next bus. That is what happen every single time I'm in a hurry to IKEA. But just in case I'm in that Asia Jaya for something that requires me being less hurry, everything seems to be perfect. The bus leaves the bus stop in time, the driver drives at full speed and not one but two buses arrives at the Asia Jaya bus stop. Very funny!

Today I was totally not in a mood to work. Work starts at eleven am and I woke up around nine fifteen. After breakfast and lazing around, I left the house around nice forty five. The first bus was full and since I was lazy, I got in the next bus. The second bus left the station around ten ten. As soon I got in the bus, I put on the headset and fell asleep. Around fifteen minutes later, I woke up near Asia Jaya. Lucky me, or else I would end up at Pasar Seni. There, I waited for the bus for ten minutes, and by ten fifty, I was in IKEA. When I was clocking in my time, I was like what the hell?! I'm freaking early by five minutes?!

Time works in a totally weird way. Whenever you're in a hurry, things somehow f*ck. And when you're in peace, everything seems to be perfect. What the hell?!

Ticking Head

Five more days and it's gonna be exactly three years after the incident that changed the way people look at me. Not to forget the way they think about me too. Twenty five stitches on your left eye is no small thing. The pain I had to endure during the stitching procedure was no laughing matter. Yes, you may ask me what about the anaesthetic during the surgery. Well yea, the MO did inject some painkillers into my eye (yes he injected the painkiller INTO MY EYE!) and after like sixteen stitches, he told me that he can't inject any more of the painkillers. The reason? Inject more and my eyeball will pop. Literally! I asked him how many more stitches to go? He answered back saying only five small one to go. I said fine, go ahead. He started stitching my eye back but the five stitches was actually another nine to ten more. The last five stitches was no longer painful cause my skin got numb and I got tired of the pain since my anger started kicking in back. Don't ask why cause it's a long story. So long, I can't remember it's detail very well. =(

The pain was the short term effect but the scar is the long term effect of my action I'll have to live with the rest of my life. I thought the scar was all the side effect was but now I found out another long term side effect. Memory lost. Not a serious one. When I say not a serious one, I meant not the Ghajini type or Memento type. I start to forget minor stuffs. I forget stuff I say two seconds ago. Minor stuffs like that. That I can life with.

I thought the pain was gone and will not return. But again I was wrong. I sense my head ticking. Not migraine but headache. The feeling of heaviness all the time. The feeling of something ticking inside my head. These feelings aren't something you can enjoy. If it's pain, then I can deal with it but this is more like annoying. Irritating feeling. For the past month, it got worst. More often and more annoying. I decided to visit the doctor. She told me your stressed up. I? Stressed up? Lol. But for the safe side and to increase the hospital revenue, the advised me to take a CT scan. Fine. The radiology department guys gave me an appointment on the tenth of June. Great! Now I'll have to wait till June. But I guess it was for good since the CT scan would cost me some 350 bucks. *sigh*

They gave me some strong painkillers since Panadol wouldn't work for me. Now, I'll have to either change my workplace or change my working time. Great! My boss is gonna kill me! 

Midnight Epiphany

While sleeping under my room noisy fan, I got a sudden epiphany. An midnight epiphany. I found out I'm not a big fan of routine. Maybe that's why medical doctor was never my favourite profession though it's a very profitable thing to do. Financially and social status-ly ( I added the -ly so that it would rhyme with financially :P) profitable. Maybe that explains my illness. No wait. Let me rephrase that. Illness sounds so... Dying.
Maybe that explains my sickness. The constant flu, headache, hunger. Wait! I'm always hungry. Skip the hunger part and substitute with sleepless night. Maybe it's my current work stress. I'm not saying my job sucks. Well, it doesn't! Of all jobs I've done before, sales assistant cum kitchen planner is far most the best job ever! But it's the routine that's getting old. Not to forget the working hours and some pesty co-workers who got to pick on the tall Indian guy. *sigh*
I decided to quit my current job and search for a new one. Well most of them told me to get a new job first before quitting but I don't think I can take any more. It's too much stress for me mainly due to the working hours and the travelling. Maybe I need a vacation. Well let's see how things turn out. :)
Maybe I'll take a vacation next month. A short one maybe. Go somewhere. Somewhere cheap since I'm on budget. ;)

Maybe a day at the beach will do the trick.

3am and still wide awake

It's actually fifteen minutes pass three am and I'm still awake. Don't know why but yeah I'm awake. I guess my biology clock got messed up. Or maybe it's the running nose that's got me awake. Whatever it is, it's now leading to another thing. Hunger. Well, not really since I'm always hungry. Anyway, tomorrow's gonna be hell of a day for me. Since I gonna be the only person in my department from six pm right up to ten pm. Haha! Don't know what else to say. Except *gulp*

Rethinking

I'm starting to rethink why did I open this blog thingy in the first place. I either couldn't find time to write or couldn't find something to write. Confused. Busy. Lazy. I guess those are the real reason. Anyway, found a new job nearer to home. Not really near to home but it's somewhere I could go back on one bus rather than a couple. Asia Jaya. Tomorrow... wait, later today, be going over for some kind of training. From IKEA to True Fitness. But still the same job. Sales consultant. Well lets see how things go... =)

From 2 Jan 2011

when i first joined ikea on 9 may 2009 i was in the dining department

then i got transferred to the kitchen department to become a kitchen planner

and now starting from 2nd january 2011 i will be again transferred to a different department
childrens department *gulp*

hahaha! XD

well i had a good time at the dining & kitchen department
lets see what childrens department has in store for me

lucky for me tomorrow ill be working
will be a little busy with planning kitchens for customer
best part is, ill be working in the morning!
haha!
time will sure pass by really fast!
woohoo!

now to pass time for today...

Untitled

no time, want to relax also no time!
how am i to blog when theres no time!
with one screwed lecturer trying to screw my practical reports, i manage to control myself (thank god!)
two extra test to take during the bloody test week, thanks to the chicken pox
plus three extra practical report to pass up in one week, again thanks to the chicken pox!
so far done with the two chem and mechanic reports, the one left is the screwed bio report
oohh god...
will i do the report or will study for the test...
cant take the day off also on the weekend... =(
monday to friday college
saturday and sunday ikea
no time to relax,
arghh...

cooool...

CRAP!!